Alejandro Gómez Tamez - executive president of Chamber of the Footwear Industry of the State of Guanajuato (CICEG) - said it is necessary that import taxes on footwear between 25% and 30% remains. The objective is extend them from the current six months to six years, during the entire presidency of López Obrador.
If import taxes decrease to 20% or less, the income of Vietnamese and Chinese footwear would increase, with the consequent threat to 15,000 Mexican labor sources in the first 12 months, said the director of the China-Mexico Studies Center, Enrique Dussel
For the president of the CICEJ -Footwear Chamber of Jalisco-, José Arias Frías, the inequality in investment, promotion and cost of the country with the Vietnamese industry does not allow fair competition, he said.
